DriveSnapshot 1.39 released

So far only the German website has the release notes (funny enough, dated 25 July which is in nine days):

http://drivesnapshot.de/de/news.htm

Using Google Translate I came up with the following translation:

 

Unfortunately, the Drive Snapshot web site has more than its share of typos. Uncorrected for "years".

 

It's very strange when you consider how careful his coding must have been, to have so many typos on the website, unless it is a translation problem.
Still good to see these improvements though. Very grateful to him.

 

no1 backup program out there for complete hd/partition backup... reliable , fast and take no pc services / resources.

good its been update time 2 time

chers

 

Well, I personally prefer an application coded with care rather than a perfectly looking website/strong marketing campaign.

 

Time to buy this nice little app.

 

Will the current download link (on the English site) get me v1.39?

 

yup
just tryed.
says the following on the interface
"snapshot 1.39 17 july 2008"

 

While I also use and love this great little disk-imaging app, I am disappointed that Tom still hasn't implemented a user-friendly 'live' CD for backing up and restoring snapshots!

 

Yes, it's a major failing of DS. Difficult restores for folks not familiar with DOS or BartPE. If you don't have a floppy drive, another speed bump.

Have you seen Markymoo's excellent Drive Snap application? It automates a DS restore.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=208250

 

Yes I have Brian and I applaud Markymoo's accomplishments.

 

These updates are very interesting. I haven't used them only glanced yet but it looks quite possible to restore the image to different hardware so in fact do a 'universal restore'. Mounting damaged images is very useful and the possibility to write to mounted images. I was backing up and restoring virtual images fine with Drive Snapshot before this update so not sure what benefit this virtual update will bring yet.

 

How exactly do you make images 'writable'? That would be a very useful feature, but I cannot figure out how to do it.

 

You mount the image, then you make the necessary modifications on the virtual drive and when you are finished, you take a new image of the mounted virtual drive.

Panagiotis

 

Okay. That makes sense. Bummmer though; that's not as easy as I thought. The images are nor directly writeable.